Happy 20th b-day, Game Boy: here are 6 reasons why you’re #1

Twenty years ago this week, Nintendo released the Game Boy, its first handheld video game console. Excited Japanese customers snatched up the innovative monochrome handheld by the thousands, which retailed for 12,500 yen about $94 at 1989 rates at launch—a small price to pay for what seemed to be an NES in your pocket. Nintendo initially offered four games for the new Game Boy: Super Mario Land, Baseball, Alleyway, and Yakuman a mahjong game, but the number of available titles quickly grew into the hundreds.

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